Dales Countryside Museum – cleaning day
Armed with mops, dusters and paint brushes several volunteers set to work on Friday, January 29, to clean the Dales Countryside Museum at Hawes ready for it to re-open on February 1. As a Friend of...
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“It’s brilliant – spot on. It’s far more realistic,” Eleanor Scarr announced when she saw the way the traditional Dales Kitchen at the Dales Countryside Museum had been re-vamped by Lottie Sweeney...
View ArticleDales Countryside Museum – Research Room
I’m enjoying being a beginner when it comes to helping in the Research Room at the Dales Countryside Museum. There are so many interesting books and documents there, from census material about those...
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Wensleydale Concert Series
Above: Carol Haynes (on the left) playing with the Northern Camerata. She began learning to play the cello three years ago. The Wensleydale Concert Series celebrated its first anniversary with another...
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Dales Countryside Museum – walling, knitting, gardening and Mick Jagger!
I learnt a lot during the past 10 days of visits to the Dales Countryside Museum. It began with a demonstration of dry stone walling by David Wright and Pam Norris. A few days later I watched Kate...
View ArticleWest Burton School – the parents’ view
The strategic and controversial changes at West Burton CofE School should not be implemented without proper consultation and detailed planning, Aysgarth and District parish council agreed at its...
View ArticleA&E services in the Upper Dales – Hawes meeting
It is not much use having excellent specialist consultants available at a hospital if patients die before they get there, or a woman has to endure a complicated birth in the back of an ambulance. This...
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Dales Countryside Museum– young archaeologists and mining
The Young Archaeologists’ Club based at the Dales Countryside Museum celebrates its 10th birthday on December 3. As could be seen at the club meeting in November the young people have a lot of fun...
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YDNPA – Yore Mill, Aysgarth
Yore Mill towers over the famous Aysgarth Falls, and the craft shop and teashop beside it. The original cotton mill was built there in 1784 but was heavily damaged by fire in 1852. It was rebuilt in...
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Connections
It is always encouraging when Pipspatch provides a way for people to re-connect, as happened for Graham and Mary Watts in 2016 and, in a way, for Catherine Conrad in February 2017. In March 2016...
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Brigitte’s Charity Calendar
No one was more surprised than Brigitte Duquesnoy of Hawes when her charity calendar raised £450 to be shared between the Great North Air Ambulance and Breast Cancer Research. When Brigitte and I...
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Playground repairs in the Gambia
The playground at the only school for the blind in the Gambia has been repaired thanks to a cooperative effort between the Friends of Visually Impaired Children in the Gambia charity (FGVI) and Rug...
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Barriers and no repairs
What does it take to get repair work carried out, rather than gaps being filled with barriers as at Bishopdale Bridge, Thornton Rust and now at Aysgarth Falls? This is a question that has often been...
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April exhibitions at The Old School House, Leyburn
There were two excellent exhibitions at The Old School House (TOSH) in Leyburn throughout April: one by photographer Clive Herdman, and the other of some of the brilliant wrought ironwork produced by...
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Art exhibitions at the Old School House, Leyburn
On Thursday July 20 two new exhibitions started at TOSH. That by John Hunter in the Café is a must to go and see especially during the Leyburn 1940s weekend (July 22-23) as he is a master at depicting...
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Thornton Rust Country Show
On August 12 Thornton Rust – one of the smallest villages in Yorkshire – will stage its 35th country show. It might even be the smallest country show in Yorkshire, or even England. There are always...
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Shortage of ambulances
Aysgarth and District Parish Council report, September 2017: shortage of ambulances in dales; Bishopdale Bridge; future of Askrigg, Bainbridge and West Burton Schools; and proposed new slurry store at...
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English Music Festival at Aysgarth church
The Yorkshire Autumn Festival at St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, was an inspiring and very enjoyable way to learn more about some of the finest of our British music composers. The weekend of six...
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Thornton Rust’s Kennel Field
The chairman of Aysgarth and District Parish Council, John Dinsdale, was delighted in October 2017 when Thornton Rust ’s Kennel Field Trust was highly commended at the Yorkshire Dales Millennium...
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Thornton Rust Outgang project
The Outgang at Thornton Rust is the perfect place to start a walk along the bridleway to Thornton Rust Moor and then, via a permissive footpath, to the site of an ancient settlement at the top of...
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